This Friday’s featured artist is Federico Cortese and his amazing imaginary maps inspired by existing cities!

Boston

He writes:"A map represents a territory. There are a variety of different areas in a territory (an agricultural landscape, a forest, a city…), and a multitude of purposes for which we want to represent it. The type of land and the purpose of representation generate the formal rules of the map: what colors or textures we use to represent the various areas, which functions we draw (roads, buildings, soil temperature, etc.) and in which way.I try to represent these formal rules, mixing and playing with their variations, and trying to discover how the original meaning of the map is progressively lost, to leave room for other meanings."

Koblenz

Berlin

Dallas

Be sure to check out all of Federico Cortese’s map art – including his imaginary maps of nonexistent cities, too – on his website at www.federicocortese.com!